Legacy of Kain: Ascendance
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Legacy of Kain: Ascendance is an adventure developed by Bit Bot Media, released 31 March 2026 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Legacy of Kain: Ascendance is
Legacy of Kain: Ascendance is an adventure game developed by Bit Bot Media and released in 2026. It was published by Crystal Dynamics. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Legacy of Kain is a series of dark fantasy action-adventure video games primarily developed by Crystal Dynamics and formerly published by Eidos Interactive. The first title, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, was created by Silicon Knights in association with Crystal Dynamics, but, after a legal battle, Crystal Dynamics retained the rights to the game's intellectual property, and continued its story with four sequels. To date, five games comprise the series, all initially developed for video game consoles and later ported to Microsoft Windows. Focusing on the eponymous character of Kain, a vampire antihero, each title features action, exploration and puzzle-solving, with some role-playing game…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 27 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Legacy of Kain series
Legacy of Kain: Ascendance is the 17th of 17 entries we hold in the Legacy of Kain series. It is the most recent released entry in the series. Its critic score of 39 is 38 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 at 95.
How it was received
Legacy of Kain: Ascendance holds a critic score of 39 out of 100. That places it above 3% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2026 averaged 78, so it scored 39 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3-8100 / AMD Ryzen 3 1300X, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti / AMD RX 550 / Intel Iris Xe. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 5GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Legacy of Kain: Ascendance launched on 31 March 2026, within three weeks of Crimson Desert Enhanced, Pragmata, Replaced and Mouse: P.I. For Hire. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Crimson Desert Enhanced, Pragmata, Replaced, Mouse: P.I. For Hire.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Legacy of Kain: Ascendance yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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